They have started to do so, but it is a tortuous process.

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Our correspondent says the election had been a tortuous process, and that Mr Pena Nieto is unlikely to see a quiet acceptance of the result.

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It is a tortuous process, and although the MEPs have significant input into the final legislation, it is the Council of Ministers, which is not directly elected, who have the real power.

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It is a reminder that, were Scots to back independence, this would mark the beginning and not the end of a long, tortuous process of negotiation between the Scottish and Westminster governments - over currency, the monarchy, the armed forces, North Sea oil revenues, pension rights and much more besides.

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And the London mayor expressed his own high opinion of Ms Mayhew last autumn, when Labour's tortuous selection process was still dragging on, saying he might ask her to be in his mayoral cabinet.

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But, to appease the left, New Labour seems to have got itself into the ludicrous position of devising a balloting process that is tortuous enough to prevent the outcome for which many on the left thought it had been devised.

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History suggests the process will be long and tortuous.

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